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Christmas trips down to LA is usually an opportunity to rummage through old stuff at parents' homes. For a while now, our boys have been following the band "System of a Down" and knowing that 3 of the 4 in the band went to the same high school as Siran and I in LA always intrigued them (we were the first graduating class of the then small Armenian high school in Hollywood back in the day - 1981 and the SOAD guys were much younger.
Here is Shavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian - bass (Source: last.fm) pictured in the center.
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I like their music though its noisy but I also find a lot of their melodic enough to be enjoyable. The lyrics often are powerful and explicit (life _is_ explicit) but we try to keep those out of the ears of the kids...
I used to love metal and hard rock before I found more enjoyment in the underground scene. System of a Down seemed a lot more sophistocated to me than some of the other bands playing on the radio during those years, and this song was one which I often snowboarded to back on the mountain.
During the summer, this song was constantly stuck in my head, especially during wilderness survival camp.
So the other day when I walked into the art room and found it blaring through the speakers (I had nothing to do with this, I promise), I was convinced I had to paint it. But not everyone really appreciates System of a Down, and understandably so -- it is, after all, an aquired taste.
Lead singer, Serj Tankian, has one of the most unusual and impressive voices I've ever seen. Ranging from a lovely shade of subdued turquoise to bright yellowish-orange, and occasionally flacked with gray, it's sometimes hard to keep up with.
Most preccussion is brown, silver, gray, and black; and medium-range tones on electric guitar is violent, jagged red. There are some higher notes here which also reach lime green (one of the highest-colored notes that isn't an impossible shade of bright, bright white).
The other singer has a voice which is almost plastic blue.
And if you remember the painting I did for Seether, you'll recognize the orange coming out of the black as the sound of someone throwing their voice. It's hard to tell who's who while this is going on, since most thrown voices all sound prettymuch the same with a few unusual exceptions (including Billy Talent and Anti-Flag).
This painting was done in encuastic and will soon be listed for sale on etsy.
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Dark is the light,
The man you fight,
With all your prayers, incantations,
Running away, a trivial day,
Of judgment and deliverance,
To whom was sold, this bounty soul,
A gentile or a priest ?
Who victored over, the Seljuks,
When the holy land was taken
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
Was it the riches, of the land,
Powers of bright darkness,
That lead the noble, to the East,
To fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We must call upon our bright darkness,
Beliefs, they're the bullets of the wicked,
One was written on the sword,
For you must enter a room to destroy it, destroy it, destroy it
No International security,
No Call of the righteous man,
Needs a reason to kill a man,
History teaches us so,
The reason he must attain,
Must be approved by his God,
His child, partisan brother of war,
Of war, we don't speak anymore,
Of war, we don't speak anymore,
Of war, we don't speak anymore,
Of war, we don't speak anymore,
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
System of a Down
Rock en Seine - Paris -2013
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System of A Down's Serj Tankian's Hip-Hop informed delivery and hand gestures appeal to that new generation of music consumers, raised on Hip-Hop videos, mash-ups, and iPods. System of A Down performed at San Francisco's historic Fillmore Theater on April 25, 2005.
Aerials
Life is a waterfall
Were one in the river
And one again after the fall
Swimming through the void
We hear the word
We lose ourselves
But we find it all....
Cause we are the ones that want to play
Always want to go
But you never want to stay
And we are the ones that want to choose
Always want to play
But you never want to lose
Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
Life is a waterfall
We drink from the river
Then we turn around and put up our walls
Swimming through the void
We hear the word
We lose ourselves
But we find it all...
Cause we are the ones that want to play
Always want to go
But you never want to stay
And we are the ones that want to choose
Always want to play
But you never want to lose
Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
Aerials, so up high
When you free your eyes eternal prize
Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
Aerials, so up high
When you free your eyes eternal prize
They're trying to build a prison, ♪
They're trying to build a prison, ♫
Following the rights movements ♫
You clamped down with your iron fists, ♪
Drugs became conveniently ♫
Available for all the kids, ♪
Following the rights movements ♫
You clamped down with your iron fists, ♪
Drugs became conveniently ♫
Available for all the kids, ♪
I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch, ♫
Right here in Hollywood, ♪
Nearly 2 million Americans are incarcerated ♫
In the prison system, prison system ♪
Prison system of the U.S. ♫
They're trying to build a prison ♪
They're trying to build a prison, (x3) (for you and me to live in) ♫
Another prison system. (x3) ♪
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons ♫
You don't even flinch ♪
All our taxes paying for your wars ♫
Against the new non-rich, ♪
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons ♫
You don't even flinch ♪
All our taxes paying for your wars ♫
Against the new non-rich, ♪
I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch, ♫
Right here in Hollywood, ♪
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, prison system ♫
Prison system, has doubled since 1985 ♪
They're trying to build a prison ♫
They're trying to build a prison, (x3) ♪
Another prison system, (x3) ♫
For you and me, for you and me , for you and me. ♪
They're trying to build a prison, (x3) ♫
For you and me, ♪
Oh baby, you and me. ♫
All research and successful drug policy shows ♪
That treatment should be increased, ♫
And law enforcement decreased, ♪
While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences, ♫
All research and successful drug policy shows ♪
That treatment should be increased, ♫
And law enforcement decreased, ♪
While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences. ♫
Utilizing drugs to pay for secret wars around the world, ♪
Drugs are now your global policy, ♫
Now you police the globe, ♪
I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch, ♫
Right here in Hollywood, ♪
Drug money is used to rig elections, ♫
And train brutal corporate sponsored ♪
Dictators around the world. ♫
They're trying to build a prison ♪
They're trying to build a prison, ♫
They're trying to build a prison, ♪
They're trying to build a prison, (for you and me to live in) ♫
Another prison system, ♪
Another prison system, ♫
Another prison system. (for you and me) ♪
For you and I, for you and I , for you and I. ♫
They're trying to build a prison, (x3) ♪
For you and me, ♫
Oh baby, you and me. ♪
Artista: System Of A Down
Song: Prison Song - System of a Down
Castillo San Carlos de Borromeo
Pampatar, Isla de Margarita
Estado Nueva Esparta
Venezuela
This artwork is under a creative commons licence.
Esta obra está bajo una licencia de creative commons
This is the cover of the first album by System of a Down. The link to the original cover is on the first comment.
Warped Tour Lineup:
22 Jacks, All, Amazing Royal Crowns, The Aquabats, Atomic Fireballs, Bad Religion, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, CIV, Deftones, Die Toten Hosen, Fu Manchu, The Get Up Kids, Godsmack, Hatebreed, Hepcat, Home Grown, H2O, Incubus, Kid Rock, Latex Generation, L.E.S. Stitches, Mad Caddies, MxPx, NOFX, No Use for a Name, Pietasters, Rancid, Reverend Horton Heat, Royal Crown Revue, Save Ferris, The Smooths, Snapcase, The Specials, Staind, Swingin' Utters, Tilt, The Urge, Unsane, Unwritten Law, The Vandals, Zebrahead
Ozzfest Lineup:
Ozzy Osbourne, Tool, Megadeth, Limp Bizkit, Soulfly, Sevendust, Coal Chamber, Motörhead, System of a Down, Melvins, Incubus, Snot, Ultraspank, Life of Agony, Kilgore, Monster Voodoo Machine
This was a pretty interesting show. I don't know why, but for some reason they held the Warped Tour and Ozzfest on the same day at the same spot. Ozzfest was down the hill and the Warped Tour was up the hill. It worked out pretty well for the most part. There was surprising little crossover by the audiences. People might come over to the other side to see a specific band or just wander through to see what was going on and then head back. I saw a ton of great bands on the Warped side, it was a really good lineup that year. The vibe was a lot more positive and friendly there. The vibe at Ozzfest was noticeably more aggro. Not hostile, but angrier and less fun. I walked through once and I think I watched the Melvins, Motorhead, and Tool from on top of the hill, or at least part of their sets. I remember the weather was really nice. Overall it was a fun, if kind of weird, day.
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